Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Camden: Doctor Set For Trial

A family-practice doctor who has been charged with illegally selling prescriptions for OxyContin, a heroinlike pain reliever, is scheduled to go on trial on Dec. 10. The doctor, Kevin J. Lickfield of Marlton, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he earned $4,000 to $6,000 a week selling signed prescriptions for OxyContin, a drug used by cancer patients that has been linked to more than 100 overdose deaths in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia in the last two years. Dr. Lickfield was released Tuesday on $150,000 bail.